NYT Daily Crossword for August 21, 2025

1 Across: 50 things on the Argo 5 Across: Units equal to nine inches 10 Across: Needing more salt, perhaps 15 Across: Swiss-born artist whose name sounds like an art medium 16 Across: What pronouns and their antecedents should do 17 Across: *Person who persists in a hopeless cause 18 Across: Destroyer of Hindu cosmogony 19 Across: *Wildlife parks 20 Across: Layer of bricks 21 Across: Show obeisance 23 Across: Smart TV features 25 Across: Eye covering 26 Across: *Enjoy the moment, say 27 Across: Name on a check 29 Across: Porter of Broadway 30 Across: Sucker's lament 32 Across: Repeat 34 Across: Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels"35 Across: Bit of Q.E.D.37 Across: Features of some stadia 38 Across: Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues 41 Across: Big name in Russian ballet 43 Across: Capital on the Mediterranean 44 Across: Blew away 48 Across: Legislative bodies 50 Across: Old wide-screen format 52 Across: Crime show extra, informally 53 Across: Lead-in to "they"55 Across: *Storm-tracking aid 56 Across: Brew designed to survive trips to the subcontinent, in brief 57 Across: Early PC game whose nonsense working title stuck 58 Across: Partner of older 59 Across: Guardian spirits 61 Across: *Musical appreciation?64 Across: Deity with the raven familiars Huginn and Muninn 66 Across: *Forming a union 67 Across: ___ Day (April celebration)68 Across: A or B, e.g.69 Across: Yani ___, youngest pro golfer to win five major championships (age 22)70 Across: Score keeper?71 Across: Peeved state 1 Down: Gives a "go"2 Down: Fictional character with a famous opening line 3 Down: Took back 4 Down: Sushi treatment that's also a spa treatment 5 Down: Palm starch 6 Down: ___ Tour 7 Down: What's off to the side in a selfie 8 Down: Demanding attention 9 Down: Waits on 10 Down: Watson and Deep Blue, for two 11 Down: Grp. aptly hidden in "special ops"12 Down: "We're head over heels!"13 Down: Prima ballerinas 14 Down: Melt down 22 Down: ___ can, item first made and patented in Britain in 1810 24 Down: Turns the page, say 26 Down: Up to 27 Down: Take leave of each other 28 Down: Just saying?29 Down: Taste tests, e.g.31 Down: Boot 33 Down: Pronoun repeated in "___ do ___"36 Down: Graze 39 Down: High on the Scoville scale 40 Down: Lake that's home to Kelleys Island 41 Down: Best candidates for permanent relationships 42 Down: Callable, say 45 Down: Gestured to keep moving 46 Down: Some retired faculty 47 Down: ___ es Salaam 48 Down: Tap 49 Down: Certain mattresses 51 Down: Name that means "my God" in Hebrew 54 Down: Bit of hybrid field hockey attire 57 Down: Criticize wittily 58 Down: District 60 Down: Holm or McKellen of "The Hobbit"62 Down: Wizards' org.63 Down: Over there 65 Down: Mesh

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